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Author | : Michael Lee Lanning |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781585446049 |
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Originally published: [New York]: Ballantine Books, 1987.
Author | : Daniel Ford |
Publisher | : Warbird Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Only War We've Got Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Al Santoli |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1985-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0345322797 |
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Here is an oral history of the Vietnam War by thirty-three American soldiers who fought it. A 1983 American Book Award nominee.
Author | : Daniel P. Bolger |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306903245 |
Download Our Year of War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle platoon. Together they fought in the Mekong Delta, battled snipers in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the other's life under fire. But when their one-year tour was over, these two brothers came home side-by-side but no longer in step--one supporting the war, the other hating it. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his brother Tom epitomized the best, and withstood the worst, of the most tumultuous, shocking, and consequential year in the last half-century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war--a gritty, poignant, and resonant story of a family and a nation divided yet still united.
Author | : James R. McDonough |
Publisher | : Presidio Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307416380 |
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A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.' "Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a gripping account of his first command, a U.S. platoon taking part in the 'strategic hamlet' program. . . . Rather than present a potpourri of combat yarns. . . McDonough has focused a seasoned storyteller’s eye on the details, people, and incidents that best communicate a visceral feel of command under fire. . . . For the author’s honesty and literary craftsmanship, Platoon Leader seems destined to be read for a long time by second lieutenants trying to prepare for the future, veterans trying to remember the past, and civilians trying to understand what the profession of arms is all about.”–Army Times
Author | : Michael Herr |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307814165 |
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"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
Author | : Michael Lee Lanning |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781585446315 |
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Originally published: New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.
Author | : Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Meredith H. Lair |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807834815 |
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Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war
Author | : Elizabeth D. Samet |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374716129 |
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“A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans—all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States’ “exceptional” history and destiny. Samet finds the war's ambivalent legacy in some of its most heavily mythologized figures: the war correspondent epitomized by Ernie Pyle, the character of the erstwhile G.I. turned either cop or criminal in the pulp fiction and feature films of the late 1940s, the disaffected Civil War veteran who looms so large on the screen in the Cold War Western, and the resurgent military hero of the post-Vietnam period. Taken together, these figures reveal key elements of postwar attitudes toward violence, liberty, and nation—attitudes that have shaped domestic and foreign policy and that respond in various ways to various assumptions about national identity and purpose established or affirmed by World War II. As the United States reassesses its roles in Afghanistan and the Middle East, the time has come to rethink our national mythology: the way that World War II shaped our sense of national destiny, our beliefs about the use of American military force throughout the world, and our inability to accept the realities of the twenty-first century’s decades of devastating conflict.